Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-05-07
PROGRESS AT WALTHAM.


a representative of Robbins Il Apple
ton, he said. I'VE have number Of
novelties that ought to be worthy Of
your attention, and in fact Of the trade
in general. During the year 1856, we
have had a steadily-increasing demand
for our better class of goods. This is ow-
ing to the very great improvements
which have therein been accomplished. |
For instance, all the watches fitted with |
our patent Breguet hair-spring have
met with special favor because of the |
great amount of extra quality which
this hair-spring imparts to the goods.
The company seem to have pursued
the policy of not increasing the guam
tity Of their lowest-priced goods, but
rather of putting the better and
medium grades at figures which
bring them within the reach of
very limited purse, and en-
able dealers with very limited
capital to lay in an assorted stock Of
good-quality goods of great popularity.
The Bartlett watch may be taken as an
example. Here is amovement equipped
with all that can possibly be put into
watch to make it thorough time
keeper, and its price is fabulously low.
An English matchmaker recently took
one of these Bartlett movements OF the
new model, examined it carefully, and
quietly put it together with the remark:
This movement is worth 20. Yet it
is sold for nearly as many dollars.
1--WE have turned out some very fine
work in the way of beautifying the ap-
pearance of the watch, both in nickel
frosting and raging, which never had
been done before These processes
| permit an almost endless variety of de-
signs and patterns which adapt them
selves beautifully to the shape of the
watch-plate.
The chief novelty with which the
company start out this yearis their one
size watch-the smallest and thinnest,
as well as the finest, ladies' watch ever
made in this country. The diameter OF
its dial is lust the size of half-dollar
piece. The train is made Of gold; the
| iewel-scttings likewise; and the jewels
themselves are faultlcss rubies of the
darkest color. The watch is thorough
| ly adjusted, and capable of the very
| finest time-keeping. Its price is very
moderate-indccd, considering the eX-
ira fine quality and superior finish, it is
wonderfully low.
"Another novelty is the 'Waltham
Minute Register Chronograph, Thi'
watch is so constructed a. to show by
means of diminutivc dial-bit anc
special hand the minutes during which
| the long ffth-second hand revolves.
Here my informant exhibited the oper
alton Of the chronograph. The LONG
tifth-second hand and the small Specla
hand are normally stationary at II, ol
zero. BY pressing the stem, both hand
are started, the small hand recording
successive minutes up to fifteen. a
anv moment both hands may be
stopped, and another motion send
them back to zero. "ThiS device Is
especially useful to sportsmen, sclen
fists, physicians, engineers, machinistS
ett. The same attachment is applieC
to the Waltham split-seconds chrome
graph, making it the most durable
watch of the kind, inasmuch as til,
mechanism is very simple and almos
indestructiblc. The Waltham chrono
graph is made in the first place to b
an accurate time-keeper, built on tn
model of the company's finest l4-slz
watch. On top of this movement an'
without complicating il, the chrome
graph attachment is fastened, thu
clearly exposing to view the entir
chronograph apparatus. The PLANES
country matchmaker can take the at
tachmcnt apart and set it togethe
again without trouble. ASwiSs watch
maker recently remarked that nobody
would have dreamed ten years ago tha
the Americans would ever be able t.
make any so-called complicated time
: keepers, and that they really do no
make them; but they obtained watchc
that had the most exact and minute time
keeping on much simpler construct
ion. As a consequence, the American
watch is more reliable, less costly to pro
duce, and certainly without expense t.
keep in thorough-going order.
THE company have added Severa
= grades of siN-sizc watches to their list
. which they will be able to put on tn
, market in the neighborhood of Mare
/. This will make eight different quaI
itics Of siN-size movements, which
with the various cascs-hunting an
, , open-facc, gold, silver and aluminine-
l with an almost endless variety {
? ladies watches. afford a range Of choic
} from the cheapest limit at which gol
| watch NAV be expected to the diamond
studded watch for the millionaire : wife
During the year 1856 we have adde
, two new grades Of siXteen-siae watches
which really make that part of the a'
sortmcnt surprising one. SiXtecl
I size watches of the Waltham pattcr
1 have always been considered yer
y dear watch to make; but it seems tha
| the increase in the product has enable
| the company to ampifv the line by tn
q addition of the Riverside grades. Th
most satisfactory line Of our goods
that of the patent dust-proof silvt
u open-face cases, which are the mo:
t popular of the kind. For strength, sin
o plicity of construction and durabilil
:, these cases stand unexcelled, and eve
5 unapproached.
$ "Our daily product now is l,2'
watches, and in case the dcmar
f should warrant it the output cou
easily be increased at comparative
shori notice. st. Louis JeUcier.
{ i hear a good anecdote ofa rur
{ Congressman whom you would t
: recognize if should tell his nam
!, saws a writer in the philadelphia NeU
II One day he was seen, in hot haste
temper, to rush barc-headed out of Il
: house and across the street, then tu
: about and hasten toward the do
. again. A man called out: "Judg
what's the matter?n MY wife h
:. got a carpet! Only carpet in tow
q Now I've got to go to Cheshire
d spit"
"a Nellie, whose grandfather beg;
ir life as u cabin boy and finished as
- millionaire, was paid by her one cent
dozen for pins picked up from the c;